As measles — a preventable disease the U.S. considered eliminated in 2000 — spreads through West Texas’ rural expanse, ...

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on ...

After Mennonites in Gaines County were singled out in discourse about the spread of measles in Texas, local pastor Jake Fehr ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that ...

The number of measles cases in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak, has grown to 107, nine more than the total reported four days prior.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is currently on the ground in Texas, collaborating with the local ...

Texas’s worst measles eruption in three decades has surged ... Infections quickly spread within Gaines County’s Mennonite community, a diverse religious sect of thousands, some of whom educate ...

The measles outbreak in the Lone Star State is largely contained in a Mennonite community that errs on the side of personal choice regarding vaccines.

The Mennonite population being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches worldwide with varied beliefs and leadership structures ...

Of the 124 measles cases in West Texas, only five have been confirmed in vaccinated individuals. Officials and news organizations attribute the outbreak primarily to the Mennonite communities ...

Measles coverage in Texas is below the 95% herd immunity threshold ... Low vaccination rates among local Mennonite community played a role in outbreak, experts say While Gaines and Texas at ...